The Boston Cooking School was founded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association of Boston “to offer instruction in cooking to those who wished to earn their livelihood as cooks, or who would make practical use of such information in their families.” The school became famous following the 1896 publication of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by its principal at the time, Fannie Merritt Farmer.
Following its successful start, the school was incorporated in 1883 as the Boston Cooking School Corporation. The Boston Cooking School instituted several special programs. In 1880, the School joined forces with the Industrial Aid Society to offer free cooking classes in Boston’s primarily immigrant North End.
Special courses on nutrition were organized for students at the Harvard Medical School; classes on “sick-room cookery” were offered to nurses from several hospitals in Boston, as well as Concord, NH. In 1902, the Boston Cooking School became part of Boston’s Simmons College.
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